March 4, 2012

I'm so excited about these cupcakes, folks. Don't get me wrong--I'm always excited and a little bit surprised when anything I make turns out well, but these are in a league of their own. If you haven't planned your St. Patty's Day goodies yet, I would definitely recommend these pretty little cupcakes. They don't take that much time and effort to make, and look how lovely they turn out to be!

I just used a regular yellow buttermilk cake recipe, divided the resulting batter into six bowls, and dyed each batch of batter with a different color of gel. Then, I scraped a little bit of each hue into my cookie scoop and then, when it got full, I deposited the rainbow batter into one of the molds in the cupcake tin. Easy peasy!

Notes:
*The cake recipe I linked makes 36 cupcakes, so be forewarned!
*After about six scoopings, I cleaned out my scoop so the layers would continue to be defined and not just a hot brown mess.
*Start with a different color and use a different order every time to make each cupcake super unique!
*I went with a regular vanilla buttercream frosting, but lemon would be tasty and bright, as well. Heck, anything would work!
*Be prepared to get messy. I'm as diligent about cooking as neatly as possible as they come, but I still ended up with stained fingers and splotches here and there on my countertop. It's okay--it'll clean off eventually!

Just don't expect any pots of gold to appear after you make or eat these beauts. I can attest--it doesn't happen. Fortunately, even though gold is a hot commodity these days, a tasty cupcake (or 3) is enough of a reward for this gal.

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comments:

Grace you are so creative, I always leave your site with a smile on my face. I wish I had known you when my kids were little, this would have rocked their world.I love love love the last shot of the cupcake wrapper!

Wow, these are so adorable and perfect for St. Patty's Day. I like the idea of the lemon buttercream - I don't know why but the rainbow of flavors just screams lemon to me:-). So does one cookie scoop fill up your mold or do you more than one scoop per cupcake? I'm just trying to think if my larger scoop will make a whole cupcake...

Grace,Don't give up hope for the pot o' gold. I think the leprechauns are just tad bit intimidated by the beauticheouness of these cupcakes. I couldn't find a word to describe them so I had to make one up! :)